- About Pinta Investments
Pinta Investments.(“We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 the data controller is Pinta Investments Ltd, whose registered office address is at 145 St John Street. EC1V 4PW.
These are our legal basis for processing your information:
- The legal basis for processing your data is based in property services contract. If you don´t provide us with the information we request you we may not be able to proceed your request in order to drawn up a valid and binding contract and we may not be able to proceed requests any further your request.
- The legal basis for our marketing purposes is Legitimate interest in order to keep growing and expanding as a company.
- The legal basis for processing your CVS is your explicit consent.
Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.pintainvestments.com (our site). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a competition or promotion by a third party and when you report a problem with our site.
- If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
- We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
- Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of your orders.
- Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
- Any personal data collected through our web forms which does NOT include any credit or bank card information.
IP addresses
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.]
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
If you submit your details to us or if you continue to use our site, you agree to our use of cookies.
Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
Examples of purposes for which a cookie may be used:
- Estimate our audience size or usage pattern.
- Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site and to provide you with offers that are targeted at your individual interests.
- Speed up your searches.
- Recognise you when you return to our site.
- Allow you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient, we will use cookies to remember your details during your current visit, and any future visits provided the cookie was not deleted in the interim.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:
The cookies “_utma”, “_umtb”, “_utmc”, “_utmz” are used by our website to track traffic to our website using Google Analytics.
The cookie “cookie_directive” is used to determine if you have dismissed the cookie notification box.
The cookies “TT2_X” and “PHPSESSID” used for affiliate link tracking.
The cookie “ip_country” is used for determining your location between our different websites.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. We do not control the setting of these cookies, so we suggest you check the website of the third-party for further information about their cookies and how to manage them.
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit our site.
Except for essential cookies and any periods for expiry specified above, all cookies will expire after [18 months].
Where we store your personal data
All data is retained exclusively within the United Kingdom, or transferred only to ‘third countries’ where ‘adequacy of protection’ or specific certification as defined by The GDPR has been confirmed.
By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
- To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
- To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
- To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
- To notify you about changes to our service.
If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.
If you are a new customer and where we permit selected third parties and our partners to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this.
If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties and our partners for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data.
We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women in SW1). We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers’ wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.
Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
- In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
- If Pinta Investments or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
FOR HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Where possible, we have set specific retention periods for keeping your personal information. These specific retention periods are stated below, or we shall communicate these to you at or before we start processing your personal information.
Where it is not possible for us to use set retention periods, we have stated below the criteria that we use to determine the retention periods.
Specific retention periods
Purpose (B) Marketing. We keep your personal information for as long as you are subscribed, or until we cancel our newsletter/whitepaper service, whichever occurs first. You can easily opt-out of the newsletter/whitepaper by clicking the unsubscribe button provided in the email.
Purpose (C) Contract. When you have a contract with us, we shall keep your personal information for as long as our contractual obligations will expire.
Purpose (E) Contact. When we communicate via email, we keep your personal information for as long as the enquiry/matter is ongoing and in case UK laws on maintaining a proper business administration apply, , for a term of 7 years.
Criteria for determining retention periods
In any other circumstances, we use the following criteria to determine the applicable retention period:
- The assessment of your fundamental rights and freedoms;
- The purpose(s) of processing your personal information. We shall not keep your personal information longer than is necessary for the purpose(s) we collected it for.
- Any relevant industry practices or codes of conduct on keeping personal information;
- The level of risk and cost associated with keeping your personal information (accurate and up-to-date);
- Whether we have a valid lawful basis to keep your personal information;
- The nature, scope and context of processing of your personal information and our relationship with you.
- Any other relevant circumstances that may apply.
In any case, we shall keep your personal information in compliance with applicable legal requirements and we make periodical reviews of the personal information we hold.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have certain legal rights that we wish to inform you of
Access. You have the right to be informed on whether we process your personal information or not and to related information on that processing.
Rectification. You have the right to have your personal information rectified or completed by us without undue delay. If you have set up an account with us, you have the possibility to rectify or complete your personal information yourself.
Right to be forgotten. You have the right to have your personal information erased by us without undue delay. This right is limited to specific grounds, for example if you have withdrawn your consent, or if you object and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for us to maintain the processing. If you have an account with us, in many instances you have the option to erase your account yourself, in which case all your personal information is permanently deleted.
Restriction of processing. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information based on specific grounds. These are (1) the time for us to verify the accuracy of your personal information on your request; (2) instead of erasure of unlawful processing, you request restriction of use instead; (3) you need personal information in legal proceedings; or (4) we are verifying whether our legitimate grounds override your objection to the processing.
Right to object. You have the right to object at any time to our processing of your personal information if such processing is (1) based on our legitimate interest (including us making a profile of you based on your consent); (2) for direct marketing purposes; or (3) necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or exercise of official authority vested in us. We shall cease to process your personal information based on your objection, unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds overriding your interests, rights and freedoms or if we need your personal information in legal proceedings.
Data portability. We are required to inform you of your right to receive your personal information from us so that you can transmit that personal information to another service provider. For KFS that means that at your request we shall supply you with your personal information related to your user account. It does not include any device data, including data that was transmitted to us in a log file.
Consent withdrawal. If you have supplied us with your personal information based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw such consent at any time. You may do so by unsubscribing from the service that you have subscribed to if applicable. You may also do so by sending us an email to info@pintainvestments.co.uk. We shall then permanently remove your personal information from our database.
Lodging a complaint. You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the country of your residence, about our processing of your personal information. You may do so by contacting The Information Commissioners Office.
EXERCISING YOUR RIGHTS AND CONTACTING US
If you wish to exercise any of your rights, or you have a question about this document, please contact us via email, or send us a letter to the address below:
Pinta Investments Ltd.
145 St John Street, London. EC1V 4PW
Tel: 0207 859 4143
Email: info@pintainvestments.co.uk
Please note that in exercising your rights, we may ask you to complete a request form. We shall then inform you of the process of handling your request.
Copyright
Copyright in all information, text and images featured on our site is owned by or licensed to Pinta Investments. If you need to download one copy of any of the works on this site for the purposes of study or journalism please contact us for our consent and note that if consent is given you are not entitled to make more copies of that work.
Changes to these policies
If we decide to change any of Policies, all changes will be communicated publicly through the policies above.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@pintainvestments.co.uk